Today, Breast Cancer Awareness Day, our clinics have gone pink as a message of hope: it is possible to become a mother after overcoming cancer. The incidence of cancer in young people is increasing but so are treatments that cure it. Currently, 85% of people under 50 years beat cancer. However, in spite of...
Fertility Experiences Archive
The embryos and their parents, VIP audience at Sharon Corr and Álex Ubago’s concert
As you can watch in the video, the last concert for embryos held at our laboratories, a duet performed by Sharon Corr and Álex Ubago, was very emotional for all of us, but especially for the parents, who were able to follow it live from their mobile devices through the app Embryomobile. As a...
Health Science Academy, “Ilustre Academia de Ciencias de la Salud Ramón y Cajal”
I am happy because I received a very nice award. I think that for most of the people working in the care area awards are very intimate celebrations, since we can see the fruit of our work: in my case, to see the face of a much-desired baby; in the case of a teacher,...
Embryos, welcome to paradise
With all the enthusiasm in the world, today I would like to open the doors of our clinic. We want it to be the place where the adventure of having a child begins: from the moment when the patients get in touch with us until they come back to introduce their baby to us....
Celebration in Barcelona and Rome
This past month of March, we have been celebrating! On the 1st of March, we organized a cocktail party with local authorities and the medical community of Barcelona at our headquarters in Diagonal. We had two luxury godparents: the journalist Albert Castillón and the singer Antonio Orozco, both of whom are very good friends...
Claiming women’s freedom to decide
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a meeting organized by the well-known magazine Marie Claire on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary in Spain. They gathered 30 exceptional women in different fields. In my case, I was present as a representative of medical science. Together with them, I was able...
IgNobel Medicine Award
I have just arrived from Boston and I want to share with you my joy to have received this award that represents a recognition by these prestigious universities. It makes me particularly excited because they try to bring science closer to everyone in a pleasant and funny way. They treated us like heroes of...
Embryo adoption: The 1000 th baby is born!
The baby number 1000 of our Embryo Adoption Programme is born. We are very happy because Georgina is a beautiful girl and has come to see us in Barcelona. Watch this video: The Embryo Adoption Programme was launched in 2004 to give the embryos frozen in our center a possibility to live. From the...
Egg and Sperm Donors: Anonymous or Non-Anonymous?
Egg and sperm donors: anonymous or non-anonymous? In France, according to the new law that has just come into force, from now on only non-anonymous egg and sperm donation will be allowed. Children born through in vitro fertilisation with donor eggs or sperm will be able to know their identity when they reach the...
Musical ultrasound
The Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas uses Babypod daily during her pregnancy and she came to Institut Marques to perform a musical ultrasound. I will never forget the singer’s face of happiness. She herself recognized that in no other session had she seen those movements of tongue and mouth that the baby performed while hearing...